Kwagunt Formation

Type Locality:
Not designated [may consist of composite section of three included members]. Named for Kwagunt Canyon, west of Colorado River, Coconino Co, AZ (Ford, Breed, 1973).

References

Ford, T.D. and Breed, W.J., 1972, The Chuar Group of the Proterozoic, Grand Canyon, Arizona, IN Geologie du Precambrian, Section 1: International Geological Congress, 24th, Report, no. 1, Montreal, 1972, p. 3-10.

Ford, T.D. and Breed, W.J., 1973, Late Precambrian Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, Arizona: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 84, no. 4, p. 1243-1260.

Elston, D.P., 1979, Late Precambrian Sixtymile Formation and orogeny at top of the Grand Canyon Supergroup, northern Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 1092, 20 p.

Elston, D.P., 1981, Paleomagnetic correlations of Proterozoic rocks [abs.]: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 1275, p. 139.

Elston, D.P., 1989, Grand Canyon Supergroup, northern Arizona; stratigraphic summary and preliminary paleomagnetic correlations with parts of other North American Proterozoic successions, IN Jenney, J.P., and Reynolds, S.J., editors, Geologic evolution of Arizona: Arizona Geological Society Digest, v. 17, p. 259-272.

Elston, D.P., Link, P.K., Winston, Don and Horodyski, R.J., 1993, Correlations of Middle and Late Proterozoic successions, IN Link, P.K., ed., Middle and Late Proterozoic stratified rocks of the western U.S. Cordillera, Colorado Plateau, and Basin and Range province, Chapter 6, OF Reed, J.C., Jr., and others, editors, Precambrian; conterminous U.S.: Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, The Decade of North American Geology (DNAG), v. C-2, p. 468-487.